Mental Health Promotion Training & Education

• The Canadian Mental Health Association – Windsor-Essex County Branch (CMHA-WECB) offers a wide variety of trainings and workshops for a many different audiences. Visit their Mental Health Promotion & Training webpage for full details.   
  Workshop offerings include: 
  • Maximizing our Mental Health
  • Mental Health Awareness
  • Positive YOU – Building Resiliency
  • Bounce Back – Managing Anxiety, Depression and Stress
  • Introduction to Mindfulness
  • Worried Sick – Understanding Worry & Anxiety
  • Understanding Mood & Anxiety Disorders
  • Understanding & Responding to Emotional Distress
  • Trauma Informed Approach – What it is and Why Does it Matter?
  • From Compassion Fatigue to Compassion Satisfaction
  • Strategies for Families & Caregivers
  • Achieving Balance: Coping with Stress, Change and Caregiving
• The Mental Health Commission of Canada offers a Mental Health First Aid Training designed to help individuals recognize changes in others’ behaviour, respond to these changes, and guide people to appropriate supports.

The Canadian Mental Health Association – Windsor-Essex County Branch (CMHA-WECB) offers numerous suicide prevention workshops. For more information about each training, please visit their Suicide Prevention Training webpage for full details.  

• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) – A two-day interactive workshop in suicide first aid training for individuals ages 16+
• ASIST Tune Up – A refresher training for improving participant comfort, confidence, and competence in using the Pathway for Assisting Life (intended for participants who have previously taken ASIST)
• safeTALK – Trains individuals to become alert to suicide. Participants learn how to notice and respond to situations where suicidal thoughts may be present
• suicideTALK – Trains individuals to become more aware of suicide prevention opportunities in the community
• Suicide to Hope – Training for case managers, community support workers, substance use counsellors, clinicians, and other helping professionals on aiding recovery and growth in persons with previous suicide experiences who are currently safe
• Visit our website for more information and resources on suicide prevention in the workplace.

• The Canadian Mental Health Association – Windsor-Essex County Branch (CMHA-WECB) offers numerous mental health promotion workshops for the workplace. For more information about these workshops, visit CMHA’s Mental Health In the Workplace trainings page. 
• The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety offers a number of online courses on mental health promotion in the workplace.
• “The Working Mind” is an education-based program offered by the Mental Health Commission of Canada designed to address and promote mental health and reduce the stigma of mental illness in the workplace setting

Visit our website for more information and resources on suicide prevention in the workplace.